donjons

I was always told there were "donjons" in the cellars, but I never had the courage to go down the dark, damp, slippery staircase.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

Long after the times of Attila and Dagobert, when luxury found its way into our courts and the great men of the earth had two or three armchairs in their donjons, it was a noble distinction to sit upon one of these thrones; and a castellain would place among his titles how he had gone half a league from home to pay his court to

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Titanic walls, lofty donjons, huge projecting bastions, and moats full of deep shade.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Both donjons, although strongly fortified, fell and were destroyed.

The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

Here at Vincennes a certain massiveness is noted in connection with the donjon, though the actual ground area which it covers is not very great; it was not like many donjons of the time, which were virtually smaller chateaux or fortresses enclosed within a greater.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

He introduced his reader to a huge, gloomy castle, furnished with towers, donjons, subterranean passages, and trapdoors.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Norman cathedrals struck the mind with devotional awe; the donjons and towers of the great baronial castles were suggestive of power and glory.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Shakespeare becomes more than a mere name; Byron and Walter Scott are regarded as the high priests of sentiment and local colour, and the cult of the ‘Gothic Age’, that phantasmagoria of wicked barons and snow-pale princesses, of grim donjons and sinister forests where all the devils lurk, becomes a fever: —Voilà que de partout, des eaux, des monts, des bois,

Introduction 1920

It was all towers and donjons and ramparts, and might, in its mediaeval perfection, have been taken bodily out of one of Sir

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907

It had tourelles, emblazoned gateways, bastions, donjons, barbicans; it had innumerable rooms; in the _salle des chevaliers_ two hundred men-at-arms had his ancestors fed at a sitting.

The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol William John Locke 1896